Parts of the country are in jeopardy of not having an insurer offering Obamacare plans next year.
Many counties already have just one insurer offering health plans in the Obamacare marketplaces, and some of those solo insurers are showing signs that they are eyeing the exits.
Humana announced this year that they’d be leaving the markets altogether next year. That means there are parts of Tennessee that will have no insurance options unless another insurer decides to enter.
And Anthem, which operates in 14 states, is getting nervous, an industry analyst told Bloomberg News this week. Its departure would be a much bigger problem. According to an analysis of government data by Katherine Hempstead at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Anthem is currently the only insurance carrier in nearly 300 counties, serving about a quarter of a million people.
As you can see on our map of those counties, an Anthem departure could leave coverage gaps in substantial parts of Georgia, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Colorado, as well as smaller holes in other states. In places where no insurance company offers plans, there will be no way for Obamacare customers to use subsidies to buy health plans.
Without an option for affordable coverage, they would become exempt from the health law’s mandate to obtain coverage. A result could be large increases in the number of Americans without health insurance.
NEXT YEAR WTF?
Trump needs to find a way in thru the back door to defund this boondoggle
This is what happens with government mandated heath care. It was set up to fail and Hillary was supposed to get elected and save it with single payer health care (what used to be more correctly called socialized medicine). No country has great government health care. I remember several years ago a presidential candidate wanted government guaranteed health care. Most people agreed but when asked how much extra tax they would be willing to pay to get it, most said about $50 a year. We don’t have enough money people!
It’s just incredible to me that I am required by federal law to purchase as a minimum the equivalent of a Mercedes SUV, anything less banned by law from being provided, and I also am required to purchase Sirius even if I don’t want to listen to it, not to mention the all-weather package although I live in CA because someone else may need it. It is incredible to me that the courts ignored the evisceration of rights to purchase that this law created (not to mention all the other rights it has violated).
Unintended Consequences: A liberal virus cured only by a frontal lobotomy
“A liberal virus cured only by a frontal lobotomy”
Rotated 180 on the Z and X axis.
“Affordable Healthcare” ???
That’s exactly what was taken away and replaced with an overpriced, high deductible, unconstitutional, socialized, wealth and health destroyer offered by a democrat controlled government.
Yet liberals still think Obuttme Care is the best thing since fried chicken. 😡 PISS ON democRats.
BFH….my apologizes as I’m breaking my promise to remain silent on this issue….The insurance industry is complicit in failing to fix this issue….It’s about health and life….it ain’t about fixing your fucking roof or pounding out your fender….This can be life and death…..I HATE the Insurance industry……
but we can fix it with big republican government…lol
let it implode. nothing is going to change until people feel the pain.
maybe now we can print the list of companies Obama gave exemptions to and add them to Obamacare.
Obamacare was DESIGNED to fail, so that it could be replaced by a single-payer system where all healthcare is paid for by the taxpayers. The lily-livered spineless GOP will do nothing to prevent that from happening.
If there’s an abandoned building that’s become an eyesore, and about to collapse, we should applaud that collapse ONLY after we’ve moved all the vagrants out of the building, and made arrangements for the post-collapse cleanup.
geeknerd: You’re absolutely right, it was designed to fail. His minions designed and implemented everything that would guarantee failure. Single-payer is the inevitable outcome. Welcome to the BHS.
Most people are missing the forest for the trees. This is just another tax being sold as “healthcare.” Similar to the way FDR sold Social Security as “insurance.” Funny how history repeats itself.
Next year is the mid terms, don’t forget that fact.